Bankruptcy Blogs

How Women In Banking Can Rise to the Top

05/22/14

When women reject or reframe career-limiting assumptions, they are able to get ahead at their jobs without sacrificing having a family.

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The Smart Way to Turn Tellers into Sellers

05/22/14

Banks have tried to change tellers' skill sets without changing the type of people they hire. They need to recruit sales-minded employees Â-- and incentivize them with better pay and clearer career paths.

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The Daily Docket: Coldwater Creditors Question Final Days

05/22/14

Creditors have raised questions about what happened in the final days before Coldwater Creek handed over the keys to its 330-store chain to liquidators in bankruptcy. The Wall Street Journal has the Daily Bankruptcy Review article here.

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Morning Scan: Fed Is Split on the Depth of Underemployment

05/22/14

Receiving Wide Coverage ...

Fed Discusses Labor Market: Federal Reserve Board members debated whether there is slack in the U.S. labor market, which would keep wages and inflation down. The minutes from the April 29-30 Federal Open Market Committee meeting shows Janet Yellen supporting the view that there are a large number of underemployed or unutilized workers and that means going slow on raising interest rates, according to the Wall Street Journal. But some other members...

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Regulation of Financial Politics

05/21/14

I have a multi-book review essay on the financial crisis that is now out in the Harvard Law Review. Sadly, Timothy Geithner went to print to late for me to include his book. James Kwak has written a nice response to my essay here.   

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What’s the Matter With Texas?

05/21/14

Will Energy Future Holdings Corp.’s massive restructuring play out on the East Coast or in its home state of Texas? According to Texas’s attorney general, he doesn’t really care.

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Auto Bailout Leaders Reflect: ‘Battlefield Medicine Is Never Perfect’

05/21/14
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Harry Wilson, a key figure in the Obama Administration’s restructuring of General Motors Co.

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Tread Lightly When Setting Capital Requirements for Nonbanks

05/21/14

Before the FSOC or other agencies start to impose capital requirements on nonbank financial companies, let's make sure we understand the business models and the risks that these firms actually take.

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Bankruptcy Fee Increases Coming Soon

05/21/14
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Coming soon, to a bankruptcy court near you—new fees.

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